[Coco] Nitros9 Xpad driver

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday 25 April 2009, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:
>People,
>
>Has anybody written a  driver and descriptor for
>Nitros9 for the Xpad?
>
>If so, is it  compatible with the coco3 and level II ?
>
I don't recall if there is one or not Roy.  I have one of those, and it uses 
at least as much I/O as a serial port.  However, if space for that can be 
found in the coco3's limited I/O space, the driver itself should be fairly 
easy, just put the read data into the already designated mouse packet.  I 
believe it can also do mouse clicks but its been 20 years since I played with 
mine so that may be in error.  Very faint, probably moldy memory tells me its 
resolution needed another 1 or 2 bits of width both ways to reach what the 
coco3's gfx can do.  That makes the data, for h position more than byte wide, 
and that may be why I got sidetracked and quit fooling with it.

-- 
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